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Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo says former president Jacob Zuma had “sought to thwart” attempts by Barbara Hogan, then the public enterprises minister, to appoint a Transnet group chief executive from 2009 to replace Maria Ramos.
ARMS DEAL CASE

Zuma’s intended trial date likely to see application for Downer’s recusal

The long-running arms deal case is heading for further delays after Zuma’s attorney and senior counsel withdrew at the 11th hour

  • Emsie Ferreira
4 min read
ARMS DEAL

Zuma has ‘lost trust’ in his lawyers in bitter 11th-hour split that will delay trial

The former president is looking for new pro bono legal counsel to defend him on arms deal charges, on the brink of the matter going to trial after 17 years

  • Emsie Ferreira
7 min read
A recent study of more than 200 rural respondents in the Eastern Cape, where drought has severely affected quality of life and food security, found that although farmers are actively trying to build resilience against climate change, more coordination was needed between state entities and local government to support them. (Photo: Gallo Images/Netwerk 24/Tebogo Letsie
AGNES SITHOLE

Court victory for 400 000 elderly black women

An apartheid law that dispossessed black women of the assets accrued during their marriages has finally been scrapped after a Pinetown pensioner, facing impoverishment, went to…

  • Tania Broughton
6 min read